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Humanity's end : why we should reject radical enhancement / / Nicholas Agar.

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Humanity's end [electronic resource] : why we should reject radical enhancement / Nicholas Agar.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
viii, 219 p.
Life and mind
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.
What is radical enhancement? -- Radical enhancement and posthumanity -- The technologist : Ray Kurzweil and the law of accelerating returns -- Is uploading ourselves into machines a good bet? -- The therapist : Aubrey de Grey's strategies for engineered negligible senescence -- Who wants to live forever? -- The philosopher : Nick Bostrom on the morality of enhancement -- The sociologist : James Hughes and the many paths of moral enhancement -- A species-relativist conclusion about radical enhancement.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Human evolution Effect of technological innovations on.
Technological innovations Social aspects.
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